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Tamara Natanovna Press[nb 1] (10 May 1937 – 26 April 2021)[1] was a Soviet athlete who dominated the shot put and discus throw in the early 1960s. She won three gold medals and one silver medal at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and three European titles in 1958–1962. Between 1959 and 1965 she set 11 world records: five in the shot put and six in the discus. She also held 16 national titles, nine in the shot put (1958–66) and seven in the discus (1960–66).[2]

Tamara Press

Tamara Press at the 1964 Olympics
Personal information
Born	(1937-05-10)10 May 1937 Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Died	26 April 2021(2021-04-26) (aged 83) Moscow, Russia
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	102 kg (225 lb)
Sport
Sport	Shot put, discus throw
Club	Trud Leningrad
Medal record Representing  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1960 Rome Shot put 1964 Tokyo Shot put 1964 Tokyo Discus throw 1960 Rome Discus throw European Championships 1958 Stockholm Discus throw 1962 Belgrade Shot put 1962 Belgrade Discus throw 1958 Stockholm Shot put Universiade 1961 Sofia Discus throw 1963 Porto Alegre Discus throw

Her younger sister, Irina Press, was also a prominent track athlete, mostly in the sprint events.[3]

Career

Tamara Press was born in Kharkiv, Soviet Union. Her father died fighting in World War II in 1942 and her mother took the daughters to Samarkand, where they started training in athletics.[4][5] In 1955 Press moved to Leningrad to train under the renowned coach Viktor Alekseyev. The following year she was shortlisted for the Olympic team but was dropped owing to strong domestic competition in the throwing events.[6][7]

Retirement and gender rumors

Both sisters were accused of being either secretly male or intersex.[4][8][9] They retired in 1966, just before sex verification became mandatory on location.[10] In 1942 wartime Soviet evacuation records Tamara Press, then aged 5, is documented as a girl.[11]

In retirement Press worked as an athletics coach and official in Moscow.[3] She wrote several books on sport, social and economical subjects. In 1974 she defended a PhD in pedagogy.[2] She was awarded the Order of Lenin (1960), Order of the Badge of Honour (1964) and Order of Friendship (1997).[6][12]

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External links

• Photo in old age

Records
Preceded by Nina Dumbadze	Women's Discus World Record Holder 12 September 1960 – 5 November 1967	Succeeded by Liesel Westermann

На других языках

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[de] Tamara Press

Tamara Natanowna Press (russisch Тамара Натановна Пресс, ukrainisch Тамара Натанівна Пресс; * 10. Mai 1937 in Charkiw, Ukrainische SSR; † 26. April 2021 in Moskau[1]) war eine sowjetische Kugelstoßerin und Diskuswerferin der 1960er-Jahre. Mit ihrer jüngeren Schwester Irina Press, ebenfalls Leichtathletin, bildete sie ein Schwesternpaar, das in ihrer aktiven Zeit fast alles gewann, was es zu gewinnen gab.[2]

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- [en] Tamara Press

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[it] Tamara Press

Tamara Natanovna Press (in russo: Тамара Натановна Пресс?; Char'kov, 10 maggio 1937 – Mosca, 26 aprile 2021) è stata una discobola e pesista sovietica, vincitrice della medaglia d'oro alle Olimpiadi di Roma 1960 nel getto del peso e a quelle di Tokyo 1964 sia nel peso che nel disco.

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[ru] Пресс, Тамара Натановна

Тамара Натановна Пресс (10 мая 1937, Харьков, СССР — 26 апреля 2021, Москва, Россия) — советская легкоатлетка, метательница диска и толкательница ядра, трёхкратная олимпийская чемпионка, рекордсменка мира. Заслуженный мастер спорта СССР (1960). Неоднократная чемпионка Европы (3 раза в 1958 и 1962) и СССР (16 раз в 1958—1966).

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